Qifineteas

Qifineteas Traditional Chinese tea shop
high quality tea-tea ceramics
China certified senior tea master-senior tea quality judge
Microbiologist-organic chemist

dai ethnic group hand made cloth
04/12/2026

dai ethnic group hand made cloth

water splashing festivals
04/12/2026

water splashing festivals

great time in Mangshi Yunnan
04/12/2026

great time in Mangshi Yunnan

tea king tree start picking tomorrow
04/08/2026

tea king tree start picking tomorrow

New 2026 spring first pick 1 bud 1 leaf ancient tree Green tea
03/20/2026

New 2026 spring first pick 1 bud 1 leaf ancient tree Green tea

Jing Mai mountain #景迈山古茶林 ancienttea
03/12/2026

Jing Mai mountain #景迈山古茶林 ancienttea

Suzhou style Chinese embroidery #苏绣
02/22/2026

Suzhou style Chinese embroidery #苏绣

Happy Chinese New Year to all my friends 🎇🎉✨🍵😌first late night tea this year 2026🐴 🐎 ☕️
02/17/2026

Happy Chinese New Year to all my friends 🎇🎉✨🍵😌first late night tea this year 2026🐴 🐎 ☕️

Happy horse year! #苏绣
02/15/2026

Happy horse year!
#苏绣

In Yunnan there is a place many locals still speak about in a lowered voice — Ailao Mountain. It isn't just one mountain...
02/09/2026

In Yunnan there is a place many locals still speak about in a lowered voice — Ailao Mountain. It isn't just one mountain peak but a massive range stretching for hundreds of kilometers along the edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Hengduan Mountains. Deep inside lies an enormous belt of primeval forest formed over hundreds of millions of years. Some parts remain so untouched that people even call it a real-life “Yunnan Insect Valley.”

The forest canopy is dense and ancient. Giant trees temper the sun, and light moves across the ground in shifting shadows that are beautiful but slightly unsettling. Compasses often lose direction, phones have no signal, and once you go far enough in, the outside world disappears completely. There are venomous insects, wild animals, and the famous mountain miasma — humid gases rising from the forest floor that can leave you dizzy and even induce hallucinations.

Years ago, even a geological survey team entered the deep forest and were never hear from again. Stories like this are what make the legend grow and grow.

Because of this, local villagers don’t just casually walk deep into the interior as most prefer to keep their distance. Village elders who know the terrain intimately are the ones who venture in to pick the tea. But even they don’t go too deep into the forbidden core — instead they carefully pick around the edges, a little here, a little there, staying on paths remembered over a lifetime.

And yet, from this same place comes one of the gentlest raw Puer teas imaginable.

How can Ailao Shan raw Puer have almost no bitterness nor any astringency?
It isn't because the tea was poorly rolled or grown in strong sunlight — neither is true. Its actually he soil's ratio of Calcium to Magnesium, unique enzyme indhibition and more chemistry makes this true. But best not to delve in too deeply as it spoils the mystique.

Ailao Mountain is also home to one of the largest natural populations of wild ancient tea trees in Yunnan, where the regions of Puer, Chuxiong, and Yuxi meet. Many of these trees grow inside old-growth forest, shaded by larger vegetation and rooted in deep, mineral-rich soils. The environment is humid, cool,

Red Gift Box $116Single bud Guizhou Maojian Green tea 50g $45Golden buddha Black tea 50g $43Jasmine tea King 60g $42Silv...
01/28/2026

Red Gift Box $116

Single bud Guizhou Maojian Green tea 50g $45

Golden buddha Black tea 50g $43

Jasmine tea King 60g $42

Silver needle 50g $45

chose 2 of the 4 , and tell us in massage. the beautiful gift box include a nice cracked glaze cup. and the lid of the box can hung on the wall use as a Chinese picture frame
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